Field measurement of airborne sound insulation between rooms with non-diffuse sound fields at low frequencies

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1339-1382

  Hopkins, C ^a   Turner, P ^a  

^a BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ISO 140; Low frequency; Repeatability; Reverberation time; Sound insulation; Sound pressure level

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; DIFFUSION; FREQUENCIES; REVERBERATION; STANDARDS;

AIRBORNE SOUND INSULATION; DIFFUSE FIELDS; LOW FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; OCTAVE BANDS;

SOUND INSULATION;

EID: 25444496520     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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